Posted on 09/14/2007 8:26:52 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
Article Launched:09/14/2007 06:33:21 AM PDT
LAS VEGASO.J. Simpson was questioned about a casino hotel room break-in involving sports memorabilia, police said Friday. The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late Thursday night, police spokesman Jose Montoya said. He said the break-in involved sports collectibles, but he declined to elaborate.
Simpson was released, but is considered a suspect in the case, Montoya said. He is believed to be in Las Vegas.
"We don't believe he's going anywhere," he said.
The Heisman Trophy winner, ex-NFL star and actor had been scheduled to give a deposition Friday in Miami in a bankruptcy case involving his eldest daughter. But it was rescheduled because Simpson had told attorneys that he would be out of town.
Simpson lives near Miami and has been a tabloid staple since his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were killed in 1994. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, but a jury later held him liable for the killings in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Simpson has had to auction off his sports collectibles, including his Heisman Trophy, to pay some of the $33.5 million judgment awarded to the Goldman family.
Las Vegas police said "associates of Simpson" also were questioned in the case, along with the alleged victims.
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Glad this guy moved to the other end of the country.
Wonder which of his associates along with him murdered the wife and friend?
I was NOT involved in the break-in, but if I had been, this is how I would do it.
Shades of Al Capone?
And I never have BenGay!!
I doubt AJ Cowlings was in anyway involved in this.
OJ.....a reliable asshole.
OJ was one of the earliest models of Thugs in Thug Ball.
This is hilarious- truly enough material here to keep Leno and Letterman going for weeks.
Meantime- just turned on the tv and heard Greta wondering WTH the cops didn’t keep him in custody till they sorted this all out...she said when a gun is involved in a robbery it is NOT SOP to let the perps wait around wherever- til they figure out what happened. She’s thinking there’s a little special treamtment here...(geee..ya think?)
Press conf shortly..
wait - he had a gun?
yeppers- there were 5 perps who did this- 2 of them with guns- not sure if one was OJ- but it doesn’t matter- this was ARMED robbery..
Ok- so apparently this memorabilia was all OJ related- and the perps did not break IN to the room- they all know each other...so I guess at some point- guns were shown and a demand made to “return my stuff”...
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...
Seriously, if he was acquitted for a crime in which 2 people died (which he killed), he’ll get a slap on the wrist for this one.
you’re right - Leno and Letterman’s writers will have it easy.
I hope the Las Vegas TV stations have their choppers ready to follow the chase when OJ makes a break for it in his golf cart.
;-)
Yes indeedy... but, who knows, he could be on Highway 15 headed this way..
LVPD Press conference coming up.
Sheeesh..there must be something better I could have done on my lunch break:)
Fox//Greta reporting the following:
-Mike Gilbert is//was OJ’s memorabilia guy and had a bunch of it stored in a locker that was recently burglarized.
-Unknown person on the phone with someone who was in the room that OJ & Co barged into - overheard someone in the room say “Put down the gun”...
-OJ has now told the AP he was conducting a STING operation!!! ROFLMAO!!!
-Has been seen on a golf course today in Vegas..
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